It recently announced that Amazon Prime customers can get Whole Foods groceries delivered to their homes, but perhaps consider a local alternative as Detroit has several options.

Why is supporting a local business better?

It's well-established that spending your money in the local economy helps you and your neighbors, and Amazon and Bezos are regularly criticized for all the reasons above.

While Bezos is the world's richest man at a net worth of $165 billion and Amazon recorded $5.6 billion in profits in 2017, the company paid $0 in taxes in 2017. When the city of Seattle passed a "homeless tax" that would have required Amazon to pay slightly more in taxes so the city could build warming centers and low-income housing for its growing homeless population, Bezos and Amazon fought back hard and "crushed" the tax.